Seiun Award
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (1976) award
Vomisa
ゔぉみーさ
Vomisa
Profile
- Gender
- Unknown
- Languages
- Japanese
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Vomisa
1975 Science fiction short storyA short story published in 1975. After a violent thunderstorm, a large man bursts into a cafe and kills a patron. A broken robot is later found; it is revealed that a lightning strike at the factory reversed the robot's Asimov circuit, inverting the Three Laws of Robotics. The story mixes black humor and mystery.
robotsinverted ethicshumorous take on technology
Bibliography
- '75 Best Japanese SF Collection (Tokuma Shoten, ed. Yasutaka Tsutsui, 1976)
- Hone (Shueisha Bunko, 1977)
- Short Stories I (Sakyo Komatsu Collection 3, JustSystems, 1995)
- Find the Man (Haruki Bunko, 1999)
- Palm-sized Universe: Seiun Award Short SF Masterpieces (Sogen SF Bunko, ed. Nozomi Omori, 2013)
- Complete Works of Sakyo Komatsu Vol.21 (Josai International University Press, 2015)
- SF Short Story Masterpieces: Robot Collection (Chiobunsha, 2018)
Legacy
A short story by Sakyo Komatsu, recorded as the winning work in the Japanese short story category of the 1976 Seiun Award.